The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1904, Page 27

ey THE WEATHEEE. Forecast made st San Fras- cisco for thirty hours ending minight, September 4: San Prancisco and vicinity— Fair Sunday, with fog in the morning and in the aftermoon light southwest winds, changing to brisk westerly. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. — Alcazar—" Nathan Hale.” California—*Sapho.” Central—“The Pirst Born.” Mat- inee To-Day. Columbia—"Candida™ Man of Destiny.” Pischer's — “Anheuser Push.” Matines To-Day. Majestic—"In the Palace of the Xing.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee To-Day. 3 Tivoli—“The Toreador.” Matinee. and “The 96 FORTY-SIX PAGE I—XO. 27 TO 36. PRICE FIVE CENTS REPUBLICAN LEGIONS OPEN PRESIDENTIAL BATTLE o~ Go ration. lhambra Theater last night in enthusiastic and confident manner. A simple but masterly and convincing address by Hon Leslie M. Shaw rior George C. Pardee presided and many other eminent leaders of the party attended. popularity of Theodore Roosevelt was amply attested by the inspiring applause which greeted the mention of his name. WWITH CHEERS FOR ROOSEDVELT AND FAIRBANKS Iowa, pacious theater - ) | The main floor and galleries of the ! ! } Leslie M. Shaw, Se_cretary of the Treasury, Delwvers a Simple but Masterly and Convincing Address. our prophet s get a & ¥y be & producer of labor but labor. He is, And the purchaser be a producer—a pro- r of mineral products, transportation, as humblest t is also FREE SILVER ABANDONED. opponents er, aithough he does not is toll is ex- that toll. And is a consumer of necessaries o be a consumer of large butiding material end of manu- terial and of purchased labor. tic party ably and always appeel to the r from the stand- never tells the ears ng It tmportant that he have | al t continually telis him that that he have cheap ltving ver fells the farmer that the farm preducts is a matter of im- or worthy of his consideration, but | expenses. price. of { portance and of window glass and f carpet gacks is of great r than in the market in the contrary, the Re- s the producer that his in- ed whenever it is r market for the he market In which party always insists produces that is cheap. The ding be a consumer of our party belleves in 50 aptly stated by Abraham 1 understand this’* sald Mr. we buy a ton of steel ratls nd the foreigner gets when we buy & ton of ste ¢ home, We get both the rafls the Republican party bas al- 0 protect the American pro- ¢ Democratic party is & free I do not say that Democratic 1 free traders, but I speak of the And I say this'mindful of Champ Clark in his speech 2 of the last Democratic in charging the Repub- mpting to get votes under , used this language: of thelr false pretenses—the ome om | which they harp on the most this year—is that the Democratic party is in favor of free lemen, Secretary Shaw. e The references in the Governor's|trade. The charge is utterly false. There are an speech to President Roosevelt's ste | individual Democrats who are free traders, character and the brief Just as there are individual Republidans who - work in the direction of are atheists; but it would be precisely as true end fair to denounce the Republican party as a party of atheists as to denominate the Dem- ccratic party &s a party of free trade. It | never was a free trade party and is mot now. The man who charges that it is does mo be- cause of igncrance or mendacity.” I make the charge, and I am neither 1z~ nmorant on that subject mor mendacious, and T have no unkind feelings toward my personal canal e elecited mighty shouts of approva There was a tumult of applause, repeated and renewed, when Secretary Shaw stepped forward in re or's introductory | The Secretary invited silence moti: of his hands. When vy was renewed he paid a ed compliment to the audience. friend, Champ Clark. I assume that Mr. OPENS THE CAMPAIGN. Clark had himself gotten, and supposed . | the American people had forgotten, the Demo- ry Shaw then spoke as fol- | tard crati 1892, which said: s n protection as a the great majority of for the benefit of the | | the American people few. We declare ciple of the Democrat the They ons of the human mind. red. And about th erican pecple study st & national campaign. Self-govern- dest tdsk ever yet undertaken party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to im- | pose and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue only.” declarat that it is & fund > o S wealth American people continue rinciple of the Democratic party that Sponpe e and self-governed people it | the Government has no constitutional right to - gt and won a forelgn war during rack and flle study the | levy a orotective tariff, for a protective tarif, il b Seids e ernment. You insist that | though it may produce & revenue, fb mot ‘‘for . es were never n Congress shall under- | the cse of revenue on A tanft for »; ol g i before the Congress | revenue oniy the protection ot pefir.. hey 80 vOte 2s to best | some And I at Mr. Clark did e . I am here insisting | not exvect the convention over which he pre- all so vote as to con- | sided (o again justif the charge which he bere to demand the the same degree of propounces mendacious; but it did. It said: *‘We dencunce protection as robbery of the demand on to enrich the few. State and | I thunk Mr. Clark would be justified a Republican speaker mendacious who would i e for office. Politics | charge that the Democratic party is in favo The issues | of “‘robbery of the many to enrich the few | their beginning | The Democcratic party ought to stand some - men to office. | pluce within ring during a campaign. 1 < vsually a ie men. The | am willing that they shall choose their corner, eeues of & campaign are between measures. | but I do insist that they shall not crawl under not between men. A political party must be | the rope without throwing up the sponge. They sra scme more than an aggregatio must ecither stand for protection or against it. seckers. A political varty ought They declired against it in 1892, and they = some principle of self-government | have never retracted or apologized. The t 4 for the same principles | American veople remember. But if they were ernmeat continuous! 1 ul, they st read, and they the reasscrtion that brotection is the many to enrich the féw. ther said: “Democrats divide all imports Into three classes—necessaries, comforts and luxuries, and contend that the tariff duties should be highest on luxuries, Jower on comforts and lowest or none at ali on necessaries. They furthermore #ay that taxes should be uniform om all arti- cles belonging to one class.” - have read robbery of a century the Republican party ratic party have been rivals in suffrages of the people. To the t they have sought the suffrages of #t of the principles ang taught by them thev have truest and best sehse political 10 the extent that they have | souzht the suffrages of the people for the | emoluments of otfice or for the honors of political supremacy they have beem aggrega- tions of demagogues and unworthy of the suf- | of mine and a splendid feliow, opened the cam- frages of anybody. peign 1 few nights ago in Brooklyn and said: Every active citizen is both & producer and | “7 do Bet hesitate a single moment to declare ce's telegram, o 1895 we were foclish; in 1900 we wese b Democratic party has always | e hands of | to be & fundamental prin. | calling | Mr. Clark for- | ' | | » | ! | Prominent Statesman and Member of Cab- inet Arrives and Is Guest of Citizens and Federal Officials. Iron Works and Hunters Poin turning she passed ships N and Ben of the Treasury Leslie M. in this city yesterday He Secreta: Shaw arrived morning on the Oregon express. | was met at the Oakland mole | by Senator George C. Perkins,| Victor H. Metcalf, United States Sec- retary of Commerce and Labor; Chauncey M. St. John, Deputy Surv States Customs; E. Stratton, Collector of Customs; Colonel John P. Irish and W. Palmer, divi- sion superintendent of the Southern | Pacific. He was escorted them on | board the ferry-boat, where the party | immediately ascended to the upper | | deck and took seats in the pilot-house. { ! He was in the best of health and said { |he had enjoyed his trip across the | | country. | | He took a lively interest in every- | thing going on about him and was es- | pecially interested in the Knights | Templar, large numbers of whom were on the ferry-boat. He expressed | | great admfiration for the magnificent | decorations on Market et and stood some time at the fe y depot in- specting them. Arriving at the Pal-| {ace he found suite 45 superbly deco- ;rated with great clusters of brilliant | hued flowers. After a few formal | | sreetings to a number of fri ds who {had called to pay their respe he | excused himself and took up a vast | pile of correspondence which he found | awaiting him here. Secretary Shaw was entertained at luncheon at the Bohemian Club by Collector of the Port Stratton and in the afternoon he was given a| glided by the marir | glimpse of the Golden Gate from the deck of the Slocum. He would have seen more of the Golden Gate if a great layer of fog had | Blue, S. G not suddenly séttled down over the | Jr., Profe: entrance to the harbor and practical- | Wood, N. P. Chip iger |1y veiled everything from view. | E. Schmitz, W. B. Wigh Y. 8 The Slocum left the transport dock | Stratton, George Stone, Chauncey M. at 2 p. m. and steamed by the Union | §t. John and Dr. D. F. Raga e Smoanmane. of the whrid. I submit that this is worth lock- ing after. But in proof of my previcus ment that the Republican party has = glected the export trade, the United States has the largest export trade of all these sixty ccuntries, and more than one-eighth of the | agsTegate. But I oresume that my friends, Clark and Batley, would, if pressed, seek shelter bebind | frand an incorrect definition of free trade. Mr. Batley said in his late speech: ““Whatever and individua! Democrat, or. in- | deed, what all the Democrats might think | about free trade as a theory, the and a robbery in this crowd knows pe: well that free | y trade ia an utter impossibiity in this re- grown up under public.” tective le and evils that 'ways bave and I make the assertion without fear of even empt at contradiction th: revenue only are identical we lawyers say, in the hornbooks. | works on ical ecopomy use synonymously. Great Britain is | It is the ! always must result from a tariff When ev Tnited an att the a day, t other pi terms notoriously a free trade country. ng cheaper only free trade country of any importance. | °F " Yet d raises’' more tariff revenue per | A® & matte . capita the TUnited States. Her tari | With high-priced living expenses” was not & bad slogan fa 1802 The Democratic party wase successful at the polls, and they proceedsd immediately to make | gooa promise of giving the people cheaps d $4 per capita and our tariff | $3 50. But Great Britain | venue only. She levies e for prot: We levy some for rev . but mostly for protection. Note the difference between the Engiish theory and the Republican theory. Great Britain, for instance levies a tariff om tea | and coffee. Of course it is & tralff for rev nue only. We placed a duty on tea during the Spanish War. It was for revenue only, and after the war was over and the revenue was | no longer needed it was repealed, Neither | | England nor United States ever placed a | duty on tea for the purpose of emcouraging the | | growth of tea in Great Britain or the United | er living expenses. They were successful be- yond their most sanguine expectation. Living | expenses became so cheap tha cities all the larger the good people organized institutions purpose of giving away the neces- Illon men walked the streets in vain for a day's work. I meed mot paint the picture. It is still fresh in the minds of all sane mem. And now we come to the campaign of 1894 In casting about for an issue om which our Democratic friends could win that campaigm | States. A tariff for revenue onmly does ad- | sney d it necessary to forsake the piat- vance the price of necessaries to the people. | form on which they had been successful im | The Republican party places a tariff on SugaT, | 1502, There was nothing in that platform and I am not prepared to say that it does 1ot | that could be used again. But the People’'s advance the price of sugar. I do know, ho ever, that its purpose is to encourage the beet sugar industry in the United States. W | have the capacity to produce cur own eugas, | and its growth would furnish employment for | a very large number of people, and the agri- } | party 802 bad declaced in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of siiver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold, without the aid or Consent of any other nation, and during the four years of Mr. Cleveland's administration conditions favored the propagation of that eco- nomic doctrine. During those four years there cultural lands thus employed would not be in competition with the wheat lands. The | o in Tl ol TN T of more mener: lands that would then grow bests are mow | 0® (T Tl C ce the free cotnage growing wheat or corn. The Republican party | ;¢ g ver‘would supply that need. There were does not legislate for the purpose of advancing | pany who feit the need of & cheaper dollarm, the price of products to the Americam cob- | .5 tpey thought perchance s provisien by it as my bellet that any law that levies a tax not for the purpose of raising a revenue to sup- port the Government, but for the purpose of ’coxnpeflifl! an American. citizen to pay more for the goods he must buy, is a perversion of Govermental power and 2 downright robbery." Here 1 must deny Mr. Balley's intended in- ference. The Republican party ddes not levy tariff duties for the purpose of compelling | American citizens to pay more for goods. They levy a orotective tariff for the purpose of in- ducing the oroduction, - within the .United States, of the articles on which the duty is levied. In some instances it may have re- | suited p increased prices, but the purpose has | never been. to increase he pries. The purpose is to bufid an industry and furnish employ- | ment for labor. The purpose is 10 make a ome market for the product of American {lator. The Dingley tariff, for instance, levies {10 per cent on cut diamonds, and admits un- | cut dinmonds free. Of course the duty of 10 per cent on cut diamonds increases their price. What Is the result? We have 2000 men in the United States to-day cutting diamonds, making from $20 to $30 per day. These dia- mond cutters spend their $10,000,000 or $15,000,- 000 annual wages in one way or another. I as- sume that they, like every one else, spend in one way or another most of their income. ‘They ! may spend it in ‘the:purchase of homes. of furniture, or a horse and buggy, and they certainly spend scme of it for food and clothes. !In so doing ticy furnish employment for other ! toiters. I inmst that the protective. tariff on cut datmonds has contributed to the American market to the extent of $10,000,000 or $15,000,- 000 ver amnum. But it bas done viclence to / sumer, but it legisiates in the interest of the American home market, It believes in bulld- ing diversified industries, It believes In fur- nishing employment for every man who destres work by protecting the product of his tefl from open competition with those who are content 1o live on a lower plane and from those who, in periods of forelgn depression, are willing to dump their surplus upon our market regardless of price. which the Government should coin ffty cente’ worth of silver bullion into a legal tender dollar, without expense to the owner, might relieve, or at least mitigate, their suffertngs. This, mark you, was not an original Demo- ecratie doctrine. It was the doctring of thée Populist party. General James B. Weaver, of my State, had the homor of being & Presi- dential candidate with free colnage ef sflver as the paramount issue four years prior te DEMOCRATS HUNT ISSUES. the nomination of Willlam Jennings Bryas | at Chicago. But looking for an issue og I never indulge but ome criticlam of the | Ty "y campaign might be wom, our Demo- Democratie party. I concede that some of the | & o & Sentnlon RS B O ehing mors highest minded, some of the best edumeated. | O TN Tl oon, ot s Sl the purpose of revenue, and In part for the purpose .of buflding an industry, and it has been successful in both. BELIEVES IN MARKETS. The Republican party belleves in a home market. It believes in wages sufficiently high to enable our people to eat three meals per day, sleep between sheets, and place a roof. owned or rented, over the babies. In this it has ever been successtul. In proof of this I cite the fact, well established by records, that the|0Me Of the most patriotic and some of the | poiq their comvention first and took it. put it American people consume one-quarter of the | Dest men in the werld disagree with me politl- | ;o piatform and called it Jeffersoniaa cotton fiber of the world. One-twentieth of the | cally. 1 mever allow mymelf to quarrel with | nocracy. It was not, for Jefferson i o people of the world could mot consume ope- | them. But for some years I think I have{ ,.corq in faver of the single goid standard quarter of the cotton fiber of the world if they | Dever #poken without Indulging this criticism sald it was Jacksoniam Democracy. It were compelled to patch, and darn, and mend, | 1 never indulge it. however, without explain- Dot. General Jackson is on record in favop | | | | ing that if any ome, when I am through, wilt | | | | | and if they did not sometimes burn to save of the single goid standard. But the campaiga laundry biils. say to me frankly “1 think, Mr. Shaw your was fought, and, most fertunately for the Senator Proctor told me not ninety days ago | criticism was unjust and umsupported by the | yrorican people, having little eise to do, that his Vermont marble works employed sev- | facts,”” then I wWill never indulge It agaif. | ., . gudjed statecraft for pinety days and eral times as much machinery in the marble | My criticlsm is this: It seems to me Bt e | o010y tnemseives. It is no disparagement of industry as ull the balance of the world, end | leaders of the Democratic party are eXercisiig | .. candidate or President to say that the he adGed that the United States consumes ome. | More anxiety to discover an issue on Which | .. . genteq e v S ol balf 5 the marble of the world. I was aston- | to Win a campaign than in formulating a { joyea is trae greater degree to isbed, snd he pointed to a cemetery with the | policy for. the management of the Govern- | . indorsement Louss platform of remark: ‘‘That is where the marble of the | ment after they bave won their campaign. I 1508 than to the jon of Willlam MecKin- world goes. Nobe of our people are 100 poor to | have stated this criticism in a score of States | ., Ty, Government is always safe whem and I bave never heard its justice questioned. whoever holds the place 2 little block at the heads of the dear fts principles are correct, ones. ' They are not able to do this in other| If time would permit I would be glad 10 | oefces Measures, not men, make or break countrics.”” review each and every campaign since the | .. smerican people. It was not Grover Our Democratic friends insist that we should | organization of the Republican party. and I| cioveiang who ruined us In the early 90's. It sesk the foreign market. They are always| think I would be able to show that in each | yuy tne Democratic platform 1502 that and every campaign since 1860 our political opponents have been controlled by expediency rather than by principle. I will content my- self, however, with beginning with the cam- urging that if we will take off our protective tariff, foreign countries will emulate our mag- nintmiity. While the Republican party has not neglected the foreign market, it has protected wrought the havoc. CAMPAIGNS REVIEWED. 1 would be glad to review the period of prog- the home market. And with what result?| paign of 1592 perity which we have enjoyed since the in- The last United States census gave our indus-| The year 1892 was the most prosperous this | dorsement by the American pecple of the trial commerce at $20,000,000,000. The sixty | country had ever seen. Measured by the | Sound fSmancial and economic policies pro- principal commerelal countries of the world | amount of business done, measured by the | WulSated by the Republican party at 8. Leuis export $10,000,000.000 worth of merchandise of | meney on deposit in the banks, measured by one kind or another per annum. Our domestic | wages pald, measured by prices of commodi-